James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795McGraw-Hill, 1984 - 609 Follows Boswell's life from 1769, the year of his marriage, until Boswell's death in 1795, the period of Boswell's triumphs as a writer. In the process the author recounts the comings and goings of the great and near-great artistic and political figures of London in the Age of Reason. Theorist Edmund Burke, painter Joshua Reynolds, politician William Pitt, actor David Garrick, and, of course, the incomparable Dr. Johnson all move in and out of Boswell's life. This book combines colourful narrative with critical commentary on Boswell's two major works, his Life of Samuel Johnson and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. |
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... imagination which pro- duces the pleasures of vanity and many others , and which is even a considerable cause of religious fervour . Family , which is a high principle in my mind , and genealogy , which is to me an interesting amusement ...
... imagination which pro- duces the pleasures of vanity and many others , and which is even a considerable cause of religious fervour . Family , which is a high principle in my mind , and genealogy , which is to me an interesting amusement ...
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... imagination , and of fact from memory . Of course the two must overlap : imagination becomes unintel- ligible if it loses touch with what we already know , while memory involves imaginative reconstruction . But there are essential ...
... imagination , and of fact from memory . Of course the two must overlap : imagination becomes unintel- ligible if it loses touch with what we already know , while memory involves imaginative reconstruction . But there are essential ...
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... imagination , and of fact from memory . Of course the two must overlap : imagination becomes unintel- ligible if it loses touch with what we already know , while memory involves imaginative reconstruction . But there are essential ...
... imagination , and of fact from memory . Of course the two must overlap : imagination becomes unintel- ligible if it loses touch with what we already know , while memory involves imaginative reconstruction . But there are essential ...
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Account of Corsica anecdotes Anna Seward asked attention Auchinleck House Ayrshire biography Boswell wrote Boswell's Bruce Campbell Burke called Carlisle character conversation Corsica Court of Session Courtenay death Dilly dinner drinking Dundas earlier Edinburgh edition Eglinton election English bar entertaining Essay Farington father fear feelings felt Fergusson Forbes Garrick Geoffrey Scott happy Hebrides honour hope hypochondria imagination James Boswell John Johnson Journ July June Kames Lady Auchinleck Laird Langton later literary live London Lonsdale Lonsdale's Lord Auchinleck Lowther Macdonald Malone Margaret mind Mountstuart never Notes Paoli Parliament Piozzi Pitt pleasure political Pottle record remarked Reynolds Robert Boswell Samuel Johnson Sandy scene Scotland Scots Scottish seems Sept spirits talked Temple Temple's thought Thrale told Tour uneasy Veronica wanted wife Wilkes William wish write